Night of the outsider.

The jury lifted its opposition to the tastes of audiences and critics: The moderately successful war drama "John Rabe" acknowledged from the German Film Awards. Even small gems such as "Cloud 9" was excellent - a few favorites went empty-handed.

 

Krisengeraune and conflicts have to gala events traditionally no place. Especially not when it comes to such a goal-oriented and subtle glamor worked as the event with a total of 2845 million euro spiked German Film Prize. The award was presented on Friday evening in Berlin's Palais am Funkturm forgiven and a time lag from 22:15 clock in the ZDF broadcast.

In this respect, the word crisis frotzelnd especially in the texts of the presenter Barbara Schöneberger before, for the second time the ceremony was champion. Time it announced half-ironically, the crisis was now so well received during the film ( "Instead of having two Til Schweiger could only afford one knight") and beat the price Stifter, State Minister Bernd Neumann, a scrapping of Cinema system works. Your idea: film-makers could their nine year old film and scrapped for 2.5 million euros cash.

Then she announced, given the economic crisis is "supposedly so cold film industry has become a family, it is getting closer together." As evidence had the actor Michael Gwisdek excuse of the Pointe's sake to a self-made pasta salad for the buffet had brought.

The jury decided differently than the audience and critics

An exciting as last year, when Til Schweiger for his commercially successful, the Academy did not consider comedy "KeinOhrHasen" sulked, there was not this time. Line of the first celebrated by Bully Herbig belobigten 85-year-old honor laureate Vicco von Bülow alias Loriot and thanked after the approximately 1000 members of the German Film Academy for fame and new funding.

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The jury had many-- if it's a form of swarm intelligence to act? - Indeed, diplomatic, mostly defensible decisions.

Two of the King's trophies, best film and best male lead, went dutifully to the already highly pre-World War II drama favorites "John Rabe" and his
Hero Ulrich Tukur - those of the criticism is not beloved by audiences and largely spurned 15-million-euro large-scale production, which is still running in cinemas. The Lolas for scenes and costume, there's still the same on top.

But the followers of the art-house cinemas could be happy: So, the Andreas Dresen earned his first directing award for seniors Wacker-Love Story "Cloud 9". And Ursula Werner whose protagonist was the best actress award.

Özgür Yildirim, director and first author of the furious Hamburger gangster ballad "Chiko", won for best screenplay. It also justified the honor Andreas Schmidt for his supporting role as a leader in the adaptation of the bestselling "Meat is my vegetables" and the camera for the trophy mountain epic "North Wall".

Large productions went empty-handed

A little overlooked had only the makers of "The Baader Meinhof Complex" feel, Stefan Aust and Bernd Eichinger. Your RAF action despite several nominations went empty-handed. The self-confessed Academy decrying filmmaker and author Christian Petzold (nominated with "Jerichow") on the other hand, already knows: For him there was nothing like last year to pick.

Caroline Link's "In the winter one year" was still for the music and generally excellent with silver, and a Sophie Rois took up the prize for best supporting actress in "The Architect" opposite.

What the evergreen question of the entertainment value of such a performance review, it must be the artistic director - this year, Hans-Christoph Blumenberg - a certified, the pundits appear to have been successfully gebrieft to be brief. However, their comments also seldom original or moving.

Ulrich Tukur, who unctuousness Ernst sought to refuse, delivered with his monologue about "the culinary world of Southeast China" in general and in particular Froschkutteln already one of the more daring and dynamic contributions. Detlev Buck conjured quite amusing, a "solidarity" of the directors, and Andreas Schmidt thanked Rudi Völler for the inspiration for his movie hairstyle.

Moving speech of a thalidomide victim

On disturbing was undoubtedly the acceptance speech of thalidomide-damaged Niko von Glasow, which stands for "Nobody's Perfect" was the documentary prize. Marked as yet even in the context of the highly controversial TV two-parter "thalidomide" happened, he was the owner of the family pharmaceutical company Grünenthal, it pointed out that these have much money, and asked: "Why do not we give her something like this from? "

Otherwise purred routinely from the parade. Even the thought Schöneberger degree, moved only once, the wardrobe in order, in golden sashes wound, the same trophy to sing: "I am the peculiar Lola."

Only at the end it became clear that the crisis may also be in the context of the German film complex between TV, art and commerce will be more than just coquettishness: The three producers of "John Rabe" taken one after another, the word for their winning film, thanked the detail ZDF Officer - and barmten: "Go to the cinema, the film is still running, he's needed, we need it."

But since announcing Schöneberger even at that party still be made. With Michael Gwisdek noodle salad.